Chapter 15: Tedasir
At the southernmost tip of the Elven West Continent, there is a beautiful island called "Tedahir".
This ancient Elven language is called "Teldashir", which translates to "the place where the stars rise", and this island is similar in size to Nagrand, and occupies an extremely important position in the elven empire that has lost the continent from which it originated and has taken refuge in the western continent.
Tedahir is one of the most natural and beautiful places on the continent in addition to Nagrand, alongside the Eternal Night Forest where the Elven Court of the original Eastern Continent is located, and it is also the location of the Winter Palace of the Elven Court before the barbarian invasion.
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After the barbarian invasion, the Elven Eastern Continent completely fell, and the World Life Tree of the Royal Court was shrunk and relocated by the elves by secret methods before the fall. Eventually, in choosing a relocated habitat for the World Tree of Life, the elves chose Teldashir-
The scenery here is beautiful, suitable for the elven royal family and the upper class to live. At the same time, this is also the farthest place in the entire Western Continent to the barbarians - here, the elves always feel at ease, as if ...... It was as if they could forget the terrible nightmare that now occupied their homeland.
Subsequently, the surviving Elven Court also moved here with the upper echelons of the Elven Empire, and expanded the Winter Palace in the Well of the Stars in Teldashir to become the residence of their royal family. It also made Teldashir from an island famous for its scenery to the political heart of the entire Elven Empire.
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After hundreds of years of construction, Tedahir still retains its lush landscape, but it has also quietly undergone a lot of changes - large and small living trees have spread throughout the island, and almost the entire island sky has been covered in a continuous shade that can make the elves feel peaceful and happy.
And above the shade of these trees, a large green umbrella that almost towers into the sky and almost covers the entire canopy of the island, is even more majestic and magnificent—it is the tree of life in the world after the migration.
The World Tree of Life is rooted in the center of Tedasil, its trunk is almost the size of several large human cities, and its root system is as far as the entire island. And in the outer periphery of the island, the whole of Tedashir is surrounded by an incomparably large wall of roots.
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In addition to the legions scattered throughout the Western Continent, the Root Wall of Teldashir is also home to the First Druid Legion and the First Elven Ranger Legion - they do not interact with each other, but they rely on the root wall to defend the northern and southern halves of Teldashir against any possible attack. This is where the elves' armies defend themselves and where their trust in the safety of Tedashir lies.
And in the center of the island is the central root of the World Tree of Life.
A whole sits on the roots of a tree, half using human construction techniques, and half still retains the natural tree house style of elves, with reinforced concrete flickering in the midst of the greenery. The human-like streets are full of people, but there are more tree houses than concrete buildings on both sides, and there are almost no skyscrapers, like a huge and strange city with a super-giant natural ecological park.
With his back to a large knot at the root of the tree, he stood silently.
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This is the capital of the Elven King, the City of Eternal Night.
That is, the Elven Palace, located in the Well of the Stars in the center of the city, the headquarters of the Goddess of Life Church in the Emerald Dream in the south of the city, and the headquarters of the Goddess of Nature Church in the Quiet Forest in the west of the city, have become the symbols of Teldashir, and also constitute the current power of the Elven Empire.
It's just that. These three poles seem to be very unbalanced and stable at present.
This is also a topic that the elven inhabitants of Eternal Night City and even the elven people of the entire Western Continent worry about day and night.
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It seems that since the barbarian invasion, the elven knight race has fled, claiming to be blood elves and reaching a blood oath alliance with a human race called Huaxia in the Barrenlands. Began their bloody revenge on the barbarians, a centuries-old war with the puppet army. However, the barbarians have once again launched a war of conquest on the heteroplane.
The Elven Empire began to gradually and unsteadily.
Although the turmoil at the top is difficult for the lower classes to know all about it, the people at least know it. The Goddess of Nature Sect and the Goddess of Life Sect gradually evolved into a hatred and confrontation full of gunpowder. This situation will mean nothing.
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And the mysterious death of the Elven King a few years ago detonated all of this - the two already established state religions have attracted a large number of small sects that are dependent on them. Accuse each other of being murderers.
They quarreled so much that everyone was panicked, and at the same time, the political situation and the peaceful life in the elves were a mess. It also makes the Druid Legion and the Elven Ranger Legion defending the island, these two legions just belong to two different sects, but they belong to the same country, and the forces of the legions that are supposed to be friendly and help each other are tense and hostile to each other.
It is said that they have now even gone so far as to have arranged a cordon in their respective adjacent defense zones -- not an external cordon, but a ...... Contralateral.
Is this trying to do a fight? Are they defending the empire and our army, or are they the private armies of the two major sects?
As long as the elves who are not fanatical believers of the two major sects are talking like this.
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However, while the elves are worried about the drastic changes in the country, a wave has not settled, and another wave has risen.
The barbarians seem to have returned from a great defeat on the Alternate Plane, and are said to have been defeated by the Blood Elves - a strange event that has made the elves incredulous, but also a great nostalgia for the elven knight race that passed away hundreds of years ago.
The first king is really ...... If they hadn't been forced to leave, the country wouldn't have become like this - if nothing else, with them, how dare the druids and the rangers do this?
In the conversation of the elves in the streets and alleys, this sentence sounded the most.
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Then, the barbarian envoys that came in a swirling manner made the elves worried and worsened again.
The barbarians angrily accused the elves of sabotaging the peace agreement and allowing the blood elves to do whatever they wanted, and in the end, the barbarians' conquest of the xenoplanes was a failure, and even more losses.
The elves were alarmed and defended that the Blood Elves had already declared treason and had nothing to do with them - they were unaware of the Blood Elves' actions, and they should not be held responsible.
In fact, most of the elves felt wronged, and they had the right reasons. The Blood Elves rebelled hundreds of years ago. The barbarians also knew about their affairs and their existence in the Eastern Continent for a long time - it was the barbarians who were careless, what did it matter to us?
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But in national diplomacy, it always makes more sense to have a big fist.
The existence of the barbarian gods made it impossible for the elves to raise the courage to fight against the barbarians, even if the barbarians lost millions of elite powers. It made the elves unable to raise the courage to argue even at the negotiating table, but retreated one after another.
In the end, the Barbarian Mission announced that "the elves have been generously forgiven for their mistakes, and from now on the elven traitors and blood elves will be exterminated by us, and this will not affect the friendship and peace between our people and the elves."
Thenceforth. They also made their suggestion: "In view of the losses caused by the previous misunderstanding, the elves should also give us adequate compensation, such as ...... Holy water of life. ”
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This seemingly ordinary request caused an uproar in the elf country.
Some people think that it is not a big deal to give it to them, anyway, the World Tree of Life condenses a bottle every thousand years, and the elves do not urgently need it at the moment.
But some people feel a kind of insult - why should they fail and still blackmail us in turn? We've had enough of them. How long will it take to endure like this?
Corresponding to the elven people, the Cult of Nature and the Cult of the Goddess of Life also show very different tendencies on this side. Of course, the Goddess of Nature Cult is extremely inclined to accept the advice of the barbarians and avoid disaster.
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However, the Goddess of Life Cult, which had already been oppressed by the incomparably powerful Goddess of Nature Cult, was very aware of the danger of this matter to them - if they lost the Holy Water of Life again. And the World Tree of Life is being contested for the right to care for it. Then the Goddess of Life will lose its symbol and become nothing.
Perhaps, since then. The Cult of the Goddess of Life is about to be like the countless sects that have disappeared in the long history of the elves, although they were glorious for a while, but they have disappeared in one fell swoop.
Since then. The Goddess of Nature and the Goddess of Life gradually fell into a white-hot struggle, the mysterious death of the elven king, and the unreasonable demands and heavy oppression of the barbarians. These three things fell on the hearts of every people of the Elven Empire in this way, and became a lingering worry in their hearts.
And a great whirlpool that swept the entire elven empire from top to bottom was also quietly formed.
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The upper echelons are vain dealing with the aggressive barbarians day after day, but the elven royal family is ruled by the young lord, and is involved in the whirlpool of the Goddess of Nature and the Goddess of Life, and the death of the elven king casts a mysterious shadow on this vortex.
No one knows what to do.
But the barbarians gradually became impatient, and the conflict between the Goddess of Life Cult and the Goddess of Nature Cult became increasingly acute, and the confrontation between the two major legions led by it also seemed to be a little bloody.
Just a few days ago, the Elven Ranger Legion of Teldashir nearly stormed the Druid's barracks - claiming that they were looking for their two missing soldiers.
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While the Druid Legion firmly denied that they had anything to do with the Ranger's disappearance, they also kept the Elven Rangers out of the camp, declaring that they would take decisive action to kill any Ranger who maliciously entered their camp without permission.
And all over the Western Continent, the units of the two major armies have become extremely secretive, and the armies are frequently moved, some of the barracks are empty, and some of the barracks are heavily guarded. A large amount of war materials flowed out of the treasury and disappeared, and a smell of blood began to brew in the sky above the Elven Empire in the entire Western Continent.
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Except for a few elven races who have long been hidden in the mountains and do not care about the world, almost all the elves are at a loss to see all this--a whirlwind at first sight, breaking their quiet life, and making them unable to see the future, even if they see the future, it is not nature and life, tranquility and peace, but full of intrigue and trickery, and perhaps full of blood and killing...... It's all there.
At the same time, in a small inn in the night city of Teda Hillon, dozens of dusty elven travelers were already sleeping peacefully in their guest rooms. (To be continued......)